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  Castle Nostromo
Location: Castle Valtrith (Town) -> Symone -> Calamity Saga -> Castle Nostromo
Requirements: Completion of The Valtrith Tomb
Release Date: August 1st, 2015
Objective: You've climbed from the depths of the Valtrith tomb into the ruins of their ancestral castle... and you're not alone!
Objective completed: You've escaped from Castle Nostromo! Will you be able to use what you've learnt about Jaysun though?
Experience rewarded: 2400
Gold rewarded: 480
Monsters
(1) Void Queen - Boss
NPCs
Ashendal
Symone
Valencia
Rewards
Helms
Voidhugger Helm (All Versions)
Resources
Emerald Key
Access to Star Captain Belts, Star Captain DC Belts, and Voidhugger DC.
Dialogue
*Scene opens with you, Symone, and Valencia crawling through a cave after finding out the revelations that Serenity was Dyana Valtrith, sister of Baron Jaysun Valtrith; scene then transitions to Symone looking from that the cave that they were in does not lead a way out from the Valtrith Tomb, but rather to Castle Nostromo; you, Valencia, and Symone move from the cave to reveal casualties from Valtrith's cultists, signified by destroyed doors and Valencia looking at a blue cloak; Symone steps on a skeleton remains, which suddenly alerts a monster.*
Symone: Run. Now.
Valencia: This way!
*You, Valencia, and Symone escape from the room they were in; the unknown monster tracks them down until they reach a scratched door.*
Symone: The door! Help me!
*You, Valencia, and Symone forcefully open the door, which reveals a bedroom that is not all it seems.*
Symone: QUICK! Get in and shut the door!!!
*You, Valencia, and Symone enter the bedroom; after they enter the bedroom, Valencia puts a magical scroll on the door.*
Valencia: Here! I found this scroll years ago in Oaklore storage. It's magic should-
*The unknown monster attacks the door; thanks to Valencia's scroll, all of its efforts to open the door were to no avail.*
Valencia: What.... What was that?
Symone: That was a monster, Treasure Hunter, and we're trapped in the middle of its lair.
Valencia: Heh, we're not just in the middle of its lair... I think we're in Dyana's room.
*The bedroom that they were in is none other than Dyana's, signified by her attire near a chest; Symone looks at Dyana's diary, as something you and Valencia could read in the meantime while Symone hunts down the monster.*
Symone: At least you'll have something to read while I take care of the current resident.
Hunt as Symone - equips Shadow Hunter class.
Read the Diary
*While you read Dyana's diary, Valencia can sit by a wooden column, perform pushups, or juggle with her sword with her feet, at random intervals.*
quote:
Dyana's Diary
(Page 1) I hate it here. I hate my family. Why couldn't I have been a Valorous? We're supposed to hate them because the dragons favored them and then Lord Valorous disappeared with their gift... I bet he went on an adventure! He went to save a town from the Night Knight Pugs Frydae or the Goddess Arkana! He's probably been trapped in a dungeon or under a spell for the last 400 years... one day he'll come back with the dragon's gift and I won't have to be afraid anymore. He'll save me and all the townspeople from my family and we'll go and stop the Drakaths, and the Frydae's, and the Darkspyre's. and the Duat's and all the fighting will finally be over....
(Page 2) Jaysun broke all my mixing bowls. Mother just looked at me with disappointment. How am I supposed to defend myself against him? I hate fighting. I hate hurting people. Jaysun loves it! "He's already broken three masks and he's two years younger than you!" I hate masks. I hate them! Mother and Father took us both down to the tomb so he could hang his masks and with every coffin we passed, Jaysun just bragged about how he would have even more broken masks than Great Great Great Grandma Ripley or ol' Grandpa Fredrick. It just creeps me out to go down there.....
(Page 3) Grandpa Walter said he would teach me about potions. If I can't fight with my fists, I can fight with my mind he said. "If you learn enough, you could be the 'danger"".
I don't want to be the danger... I want to be the one who bakes.
But maybe I can learn to make a potion to make Jaysun turn into a frog!
(Page 4) I took the last sweetroll and I made Jaysun mad... I didn't know he wanted it! I didn't mean to make him mad!
He took me to the center of the castle... to the old bricked up door... and he just put his hand on it and said he'd let it out. He'd let out the thing Great Grandma Ripley trapped and it would eat me.
I hate him.
(Page 5) I don't know why they even want me at war council meetings. I'd rather be baking or cleaning or painting or... anything! I guess Father still holds out hope that I'll discover my "inner warrior".
It's all just yelling back and forth. Jaysun wants to attack the Drakaths, the Duats, the Iadoas... just everyone! Mother and Father, for all their pride at his pile of broken masks, keep trying to advise caution... to get him to plan his attacks.
But Jaysun doesn't like to wait for his enemy to come to him.
(Page 6) Jaysun... he found something out in Deadlands.
It's a cape. Made of shadow.
He says it's made of his enemies souls. That with every soul he traps, he'll become even more powerful.
I'm scared for the Drakaths... for the Duats.... for the Darkspyres... for everyone.
(Page 7) Mother and Father are... gone. Jaysun was tried of waiting to take over and he... he devoured them.... I thought that his cape was going to take me too but... but he just laughed and I said that I was wasn't worth it... that he needed someone to bake his bread.
(Page 8) I remember what Grandpa Walter taught me. I remember the stories about Lord Valorous, I've heard about the bravery of so many heroes, of the horrors that Great Grandpa Ripley went through to take this castle and trap the evil inside it....
I can't... I can't kill him... but I can stop him. I can be brave... I can be the danger... I can stop Jaysun.
I have to.
(Page 9) Oh, by the Avatars... what's happened? How long have I been asleep for? A man in a hood pulled me from my tomb... My tomb!
There were shadowy figures around Jaysun's tomb... but all that was left was his mask surrounded by shadow. He should have been asleep! The potion worked on me.... Did... did his shadow cape devour him too?
The castle is in ruins... I managed to escape them and get to my room but... but whatever was trapped in center is out now. I can hear the screams....
They wanted me to show them the way out but they have the cape.... I can make a potion to forget.... then no one will ever find it. The Valtrith Clan will finally be buried.
Hunting the Monster
*You as Symone must find the monster throughout Castle Nostromo and its surroundings; while you hunt the monster, you must not step on a colored spot as stepping on it results in a game over.*
quote:
Something caught you... and it's saving you... for later.
Hunt as Symone - teleports to the room where Ashendal's head is located.
Read the Diary - teleports to Dyana's room.
Watch your step as you move through the castle…
*During the exploration of Castle Nostromo, it is revealed that this castle also contains an ancient, massive spaceship; in one of its rooms, you come across an Ashendal head.*
Ashendal: Y..y...y...bzzzzzztttt Error in primary...
Ashendal: Hah. Just kidding.
Ashendal: This place just felt like it needed the head of an Ash so I wandered in before you got here.
Ashendal: This ship managed to escape the reset due to the overal mess that the cappuccino made when it spilled.
Ashendal: That made a bunch of errors like this one that never got fixed. It's still in the process of being corrupted as you can see.
Ashendal: When you leave I'll hop back to when The Reset finished and see why this never got adjusted or cleared of the Shadowscythe tech.
Ashendal: You'll have problems of your own soon enough though. Big, chompy, angry, dragony problems.
Ashendal: I won't lie about your chances, Symone. I also know you probably have no idea what the other stuff I was talking about meant.
Ashendal: That wasn't really for you, but the person on the other side of that barrier where I'm staring. They can talk in the lore thread on the forums later.
Ashendal: Alright, off you go. Can't have you sitting around here listening to me drone on. Perfect creature waiting to chomp on you and all that.
*Eventually, you come across an ancient exoskeleton.*
Upon approaching the ancient exoskeleton:
What's this?
Equips player's base class.
*The unknown monster that chased you, Symone, and Valencia earlier revealed to be the Void Queen; after Symone defeats the Void Queen with the ancient exoskeleton, she knocks on the door to Dyana's room.*
Symone: .... It's me.
*You and Valencia open the door to Symone.*
Valencia: It took you long enough.
*Symone smiles as she tosses the Void Queen's claw at Valencia's face.
Symone: I had to find you some treasure.
*Valencia picks up the Void Queen's claw; she appears to be disgusted at the goo from it.*
<Character>: Let's get out of here.
*You, Valencia, and Symone escape from Castle Nostromo and eventually, the Deadlands with their griffins; elsewhere, in Castle Nostromo, multiple purple Void Dragon eggs crack, signifying that they are about to hatch; scene fades to black.*
Complete Quest
Loot for DCs - opens Voidhugger DC shop.
Other information
Quest is a reference to the 1979 film Alien.
Stepping on a colored spot, which consists of red, green, and purple colors, will cause the spot to disappear for the entirety of the quest.
Steeping on green water slowly removes the player's HP/MP.
Directions to boss fight:
spoiler:
Entrance -> Down -> Far Left -> Left -> Bottom Left -> 2 Down -> Enter room with a white gem on top -> Walk over to Exosuit During the exploration, you may come around on two treasure chests that open the shops Star Captain Belts and Star Captain DC Belts; they can be found in the following directions:
spoiler:
Star Captain Belts: Entrance -> 4 Down -> Left -> Down -> 3 Left -> 3 Down -> 4 Right -> 2 Left Up -> Walk to the chest -> Jaysun's Loot DO NOT TOUCH!
Star Captain DC Belts: Entrance -> 4 Down -> Left -> Down -> 3 Left -> Down -> Left -> Walk to the chest -> Jaysun's Loot DO NOT TAKE! Pop-up headlines during the quest:
quote:
Nope, you totally didn't see that. Nopenopenope.
Self Destruct Activated. Get to emergency escape po...Error..Error...Countdown Reset... On-hover text during the quest:
quote:
Something was clawing frantically at the stone.
The passage up is choked with stones and dirt.
Something has been clawing at the walls... but these marks seem to be hundreds of years old.
These things are definitely suspicious....
Whatever is in this jar is brown... and smelly... and moving....
An ancient storage closet. That thump must have been a board finally rotting through....
It feels like the mask is watching you....
The doors seem to be welded shut....
An ancient painting of the hills... the Deadlands hasn't changed much in 600 years.
The scratches are fresh and something... green oozes out of them.
A captured banner... you can barely make out the head of a lion woven into the cloth.
The doors down to the Valtrith Tomb are locked solidly shut.
Twisted roots have begun to grow through the rubble.
One door has been torn off it's hinges....
Stones and boards have fallen from the ceiling.
Moss and cobwebs cover the decaying boards.
The door has been haphazardly boarded shut.
Cracks and holes have formed in the walls.
You can see the sky through holes in the roof.
The Deadlands is slowly reclaiming the castle as plants and trees take root on the broken and decaying roof.
It looks like something has been clawing at the door.
The stones are deeply grooved with claw marks.
Green and purple slime ooze out of the wood.
Dust and webs cover these ancient, dryed out candles.
The barrel is filled with rope and gear ... it's old but only by years, not centuries.
A giant web... but you haven't seen any spiders....
A strip of blue cloth... it looks familiar.
The bones are gnawed and broken. A twisted hood with purple spikes lies near it.
Purple and green slime coats these bones.
A lone skull... where's the rest of the body?
The door was forcefully ripped from the wall.
Dust covered tusks remain mounted on the wall.
A gaping hole grows in the wall.
A huge chunk of celing has fallen... or was it pulled down?
The tattered remains of the curtain are wet... but there isn't a hole in the roof here.
The bone has been picked clean of any flesh.
Do not put your hand in this. NO, DON'T DO IT.
These bricks and stones once blocked the doorway but something ripped them from the wall.
Cracks have formed in the archway... from something pushing through it?
Something is glowing within all the collapsed rubble. You should leave that alone.
Nopenopenope.
"Hypersleep Sarcophogus" is etched into a plate on the side.
The bones seem to be sorted... for what? Snacks?!
Green and black slime coats the walls.
The bones are coated in slime... or drool. Gross.
How did that get up there?
A pile of gnawed skulls.
You can ehar steam hissing gently... yeah, steam. It must be steam.
The hammer doesn't belong with the ancient technology here....
Bricks and a bucket of hardened mortar.
Buttons for scans of any medical issue... all long dark.
Deep grooves mar the floor where ancient equipment was pulled out.
These are buttons for bandages and medicine.
Is that... a handprint?
Whoever was bricking up the walls left in a hurry.
Is something trying to tear down the wall? Or is it just sharpening it's claws?
Bits of bone that have been left behind....
The remains of the bricks and stone that once blocked the doorway south of you.
Eons of dust cover everything....
That smells awful....
You can hear something hissing in the darkness.
It looks like someone took a battering ram to bricked up doorway.
Forgotten bones.
You can make out the outline of a tree stitched into this captured banner.
You can hear... what you hope is wind, howling behind this doorway.
The shredded remains of curtains... who tore them away?
Splotches of red coat the outside of the mask.
The door is locked tight but a crooked "J" is carved crudely into the wood.
As you peer into the darkness something skitters further into the gloom.
The Earth Guardian Tower covered in... blood?
These rusty weapons look like they're centuries old.
There is definitely something alive in there. It is NOT happy being bothered.
You put your ear to the door... and it shudders as something huge falls against it.
A glow peeks out from under the door and you can hear a something... small hissing on the other side.
Yeah, you should just not touch this. Really, really, really, don't. <Character>'s first dialogue, Heh, we're not just in the middle of its lair... I think we're in Dyana's room., incorrectly labels Valencia as the speaker.
Page 8's excerpt from Dyana's Diary, 'I've heard about the bravery of Ash Alteon', was replaced by 'I've heard about the bravery of so many heroes' on December 22nd, 2025.
Thanks to DemonicDarkwraith for entry rewrite, other information, and corrections.
< Message edited by DemonicDarkwraith -- 12/22/2025 17:55:43 >
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